Description: The task, taken up by such a rogue comic talent, could be nothing other than strangely delightful; and in In-House Weddings, the first of the trilogy that Hrabal produced, we meet the author through the eyes of his wife Eliska. She narrates his life from his upbringing in Nymburk through his work as a dispatcher in a train station and then in a scrap paper plant, his first publication, his trouble with the authorities, and his association with notable artists and authors such as Jiri Kolar, Vladimir Boudnik, and Arnost Lustig.
Review Quotes: "Anyone familiar with the dark and obliquely humorous imagination of Mr. Hrabal . . . will know that he could no more bear the predictability of . . . a formula than he could stomach the inane conformism demanded by a socialist bureaucracy. . . [His book] is an irresistibly eccentric romp, quick with the heart's life and about as schematic as a drunken night on the town. . . . Mr. Hrabal's is a cry of expiring humanism." --New York Times